My Fabric House Giveaway!

I was so pleased when Luella from My Fabric House contacted me to ask if I wanted to do this because (and if you’re a regular reader you’ll know this already..) it’s one of my favourite shops (I admit, I have quite a lot, but it’s right up there!). I always browse their lovely fabrics when I’m after something chic and sweet, and maybe a little bit quirky – things that MFH does really well. And with free (yay!) and super-speedy delivery too, there’s not much else us customers can ask for is there?

Speaking of linen, one of the fabrics that I buy time and time again from MFH is a lovely tiny polka dot linen that comes in a really useful selection of colours (you can see how I’ve used them just here). You can see all their linen fabrics (and ribbons and linen-covered buttons) in their new Love Linen feature.

So, to the giveaway! I love this one because there are going to be 10 winners! How fab is that? I have 10 vouchers for £5 each for you to spend at My Fabric House (click on the image to read the terms and conditions):

The giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere, and will close at midnight, Sunday March 25th.

Just leave a comment on this post (not on Facebook or anywhere else!) to be in with a chance of winning. If you’d like to say more than ‘I’d like to win please!’, then why not tell me (thinking of Red Riding Hood…) your favourite story or book when you were a child. Mine was The Tree that Sat Down – I must have read it 100s of times!

Wow – the fabrics look sooo pretty! My favourite book was called Under Plum Lake by Lionel Davidson. I’ve re-read it many times since and I really look forward to reading it to my little boy in the not too distant future 🙂

The little birdie fabric is lush!! I love MFH too – I couldnt even bring myself to use the cute little father christmas fabric I got last year :p
Ok you will probably never heard of my book but it was called “dinner ladies dont count” It was a little book filled with little school stories 🙂 xx

I just love anything pink or anything linen
My favourite book when I was a child was The Wind in the Willows, Toad was such a great charactor. Poop Poop! My (now huge grown up children) were all read this book on my than one occassion and we still have that same book today .
2nd choice Nurse Matilda , now famously made into a film and renamed Nanny McPhee. Still have that original book too!

Fab competition! I just hope if I win, I can make things as beautiful as you as I love your wallets made from co-ordinating patterned fabric! One of my favourite stories as a child (and still is) The Changeover by Margaret Mahy

There were so many books I loved when I was younger, the borrowers, heidi, 5 children and it, the worst witch, the magic faraway tree but my favourite books were the Just William books, I’m now trying to find copies for my son to read 🙂

I always loved Hanzel & Gretel & Little Red Riding Hood as I had the Books with the little vinyl album (7″ I think like the music ones) that told the story to me and there was sound effects and lots of suspense..lol! Memories I’ll keep forever – love MFH too, I’m waiting for an order to come in the post anyday now…stalking the postie daily 🙂

I love the designs! Im so glad to have found this site 🙂
My favourite book when i was a child is hard, as i read non stop, but there was one about two little men who lived inside a refrigerator and they ran and turned the light on for you when you opened the door, athough they have never been seen! They had great adventures and I would love to find it again, also i enjoyed The Magic Faraway Tree and would daydream avout visiting strange wonderful lands 🙂

Such a fabulous giveaway! I LOVE MFH 🙂 My favourite childhood books were Fingerling books. They were amazing! I read them for years. Being Dutch, I actually had to Google the English name for them, but I can highly recommend these for any child. Thanx for hosting this giveaway!

I love the things that you make, and the fabric from my fabric house is gorgeous!!! I have just re-discovered sewing – and can not stop buying / looking at projects and fabric… The problem I have, is which project to start first!!! It’s all soo inspiring…

I only recently discovered my fabric house.. they have some fab fabrics and i’d love to win.. particularly ❤ the red riding hood one – think i could make something fab for my handmade dollys out of that x

Being a total Tomboy as a child my favourite books were by far my Beano and Dandy Annuals. I loved them so much that when they weren’t being read (usually because it’s not easy to read a book whilst climbing a tree) they were under my pillow, ready for a sneaky late night (9pm) read!

My favourite book was anything by Enid Blyton when I was a child – particularly the Secret Seven series and of course, Famous Five. I spent hours and hours reading – living out in the middle of nowhere on a farm meant I had a lot of my own company! Enid helped fill that void, bless her 🙂
I would love to win by the way!

I loved so many it’s hard to choose. The picture book that’s stuck with me though is called Never Tease a Weasel. They brought it out again a few years back, and of course I had to buy it. The words are still the same but they drew new pictures! I was ever so disappointed.

Oh and Brambley Hedge too. I’d like to rescue those from the shelf next time I visit my parents.

I would, of course, love to win 🙂 I think I might be checking out all this gorgeous fabric as soon as I’ve finished writing this comment…
My favourite books were all the wonderful stories by Astrid Lindgren.

Thanks for the chance to win. My favourites as a child were Enid Blyton (particularly The Secret Island and the Mallory Towers books) and Roald Dahl. Just read George’s Marvellous Medicine to my wee boy and he loved it too.

Oooo lovely giveaway! I loves anything by Enid Blyton.. and loved the Magic Faraway Tree…as did my own children… I also had a book called ‘Mr. Mysterious’ which was excellent – but don’t know who it was by. Happy Sunday! Jill :)x

I love Fabric Fan!
My favourite book: very easy. Its “When we were very young” by AA Milne and EH Shepard. It was a gift from my aunt when I was 6. I kept it all these years (tattered and torn) and gave it to my daughter when she turned 6, who gave it to her brother when he turned 6. Its an heirloom now.
Its one of very few things I would save if there was a fire.

I would so love to win one of these, I would order some small prints for dolls clothes 🙂 My favourite stories when growing up were the Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan the lion was such a great character, I cried every time I read the chapter he dies in 😦 Another favourite was a classic Watership Down, the way the story is told is amazing, you would think the writer had lived in a rabbit warren!

What a lovely competition, and your right they do have to quickest delievery my latest order was in my hand in less than 24 hours. I’d love to win and my favourite story has to be ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’ by the Grimm brothers x

What lovely fabric. My favourite book when I was very small was ‘Henry’s Wagon’. Later on it was ‘Little Women’. I read that one four times when I was 10 years old. My favourite character was Beth and I was devastated when she died. Nevertheless, I read it again and again – possibly hoping that she would survive the next time.

Oh. lovely fabric! As a small child I loved The Billy Goats Gruff and Chicken Licken and then moved on to The Secret Garden and Little Princess and then onto The Chalet School, Tom’s Midnight Garden and The Children of Green Knowe (spelling?!) via Anne of Green Gables and What Katy Did!!

Wow! Favourite story….hmmm that is a tough one. I think I’d have to say the Wind and the Willows. I love the diversity of all the characters, or at least I think I did because when I used to have it read to me I am positive I did not know what diversity meant. Think I must dig that out and read it to my daughter. would love to win, I love flower power ultra violet and light orchid, beautiful fabric. fingers crossed xXx

Just wanted to say Thank you for your list of online fabric shops. This year I took up sewing again and have made myself a Summer top from some old fabric I had just to see if I could. Now that I’m happy with the result I’ve ordered some lovely fabric for another top and some flannel for a pair of pyjama bottoms from Calico Laine.

Well what a fantastic prize, of course I would love to win but I’m sure theirs a lot of people thinking the same thing. Well I’m going to say good luck to everyone.
My favourite book when younger was the enchanted tree and the loin the witch and the warbrobe.

I read loads when I was a child without having a favourite book or author even. I got really into Thomas Hardy in my first couple of years at secondary school (I know, odd kid) especially the poetry. I’ve always loved poetry though, even as a child.

I like giveaways too (and winning the odd one might be nice) so we shall see what happens this time!

Great competition, the magic far away tree was my fave when I was growing up. Looking over My Fabric House fabrics ALWAYS makes me not want to go to work so I can stay home and make stuff. Love there pieces X

What a wonderful fabric site! I love those goats and squirrels, And the RRHood :^)
My Favorite books when I was a kid were: Leo the Late Bloomer, and The Lorax. BUt I also loved a book of limericks by Edward Lear!

Ali! What a great great job you did, can’t thank you enough for all the kind words you said about us (My Fabric House) It really gave all of us a huge boost and the bestest luck to everyone! xoxo
Luella from My Fabric House

I would LOVE to win – ordered from MFH too, and can’t wait to go back for more. Such great stuff.
My favourite story book as a chile was ‘We’re going on a bear hunt…’ I think I know it word for word. 🙂 x

I’d love to win ANYTHING from you guys! Your shop is my absolute fave on facebook! You get the prettiest fabric I have ever seen. Big love!! Haha, silly Emma! I totally forgot to tell you my favourite childhood story. It was and still is, Matilda by Roald Dahl. I always loved it because I could relate to her in a lot of ways (not as clever, but just as strange!) and the story helped me get though a lot of tough times. The lesson is obviously, that as long as you keep your chin up and stay the person you are and love what you do, things will get better and good things will happen. It is so very true! xxx

super competition! i too was a lover of enid blyton, loved the malory towers books, but more recently i’ve rediscovered childrens books for their illustrations, and i absolutely adore the edge chronicles books for theirs.

Thanks for the giveaway Ali – when I was younger I absolutely Enid Blyton’s the Famous Five and the Secret Seven and used to go to the library every week to get supplies to keep me going until the following week…. Ah happy days sat curled up reading xx

I’d love to win, just brought loads of cute fabric from them last night for a buntin project for my little girls room. I loved to read the magic far away tree when i was small too. Must get a copy now to read to my little girl.

Hurrah! What an amazing selection of fabrics!
My favourite story book was The Mousehole Cat. The story is set in my home from home, and the illustrations are sublime!
Thanks for the chance for winning a great prize!
Jen@madeinminch

wow this is a very nice give away, my fav book was the sad story of chicken licken, he was a stupid lil chicken in fact the stupidest in the whole world, he was eaten in the end by foxy locky, along with his friends henny lenny, ducky lucky,( guess not so lucky),drakey lakey, goosy loosy, turkey lurkey, and cocky locky, i loved this book and still do, but not as much as i would love to be a winner of this competition.

Would love to win!! I also loved the magic far away tree and the enchanted wood. Oh and all the Moomin stories, being a bit Scandi had them all! Gonn astopnow coz there are faar too many good bools to list….. ;-D

Hi. Wow, what an exciting giveaway! My favourite book when I was a child was The Coconut Island Twins but I can’t remember the author.Three or four years ago I went to Mauritius and saw a sugar cane plantation for the first time and I was immediately transported back to my childhood and the part in the book where one of them is lost in the sugar cane. It was the best part of the holiday for me.
Oh, and by the way, I would really like to win one of the prizes!

I recently found a copy of “The tiger that came to tea” in a cafe and reminisced about how I use to love that book as a child. I remember my mum reading it to me and all the wonderful illustrations. I read it all the way through sitting at the table, drinking my tea and completely ignoring the people I was with and it was just as good as I remembered it!!

I would love to win. It is really hard to choose a favourite book as I was a voracious reader ( I think I managed to read through almost the entire childrens section of our local library) but one that I loved, and still love (and still have) is “The Little White Horse” by Elizabeth Goudge.

I’m just really starting to get into sewing, and I haven’t tried using linen with any projects yet, but I’d certainly like to. I hear it’s really useful, and besides, I like working with natural fibres as often as possible.

Absolutely gorgeous fabrics and the ‘Inspire Me’ page is brilliant! I can’t remember one book or story in particular from my childhood as being my favourite but I do remember anything and everything by Enid Blyton as being totally enthralling 😀

Claire, I think it was The Children of Cherry Tree Farm if it’s the same one I’m thinking of… A trilogy? It was brilliant and I think I might still have the entire collection (plus a lot if other Blyton books) sitting in my parents’ attic!

Usborne books do all of the Apple Tree Farm books… the ones where there’s a duck hidden on every page, right? I have a few for my boys, their fave is “Tractor gets Stuck”. Hope you manage to find it though x

Oh wonderful giveaway! I had a story LP of the brothers Grimm when I was wee, and I loved it. It had the Fishermans Wife, Rumplestiltskin, and my favourite was about a mouse, a bird and a sausage that lived together….